Eavan Boland

EB was a leading Irish poet (latterly part resident in the USA) who also established a reputation as a critic writing on literary issues of feminism, nationalism, and modernism. Her work appeared in many anthologies as well as her own volumes, and she lectured internationally.

Milestones

24 September 1944

EB was born in Dublin, the youngest of her parents' five children.
Welch wrongly gives her birth date as 1945.
Allen Randolph, Jody. “A passion for the ordinary”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
ix
, No. 7, pp. 19-20.
19
Learning Network,. Infoplease.

October 1962

At the age of eighteen, shortly after leaving school for university, EB self-published 23 Poems, a pamphlet of her poetry, in an impression of 250 copies.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Sherry, Vincent B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 40. Gale Research.
36

1986

EB published The Journey and Other Poems, dedicated to her mother , with Arlen House .
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

27 April 2020

EA died in Dublin, of a stroke.

13 October 2020

EB's final, posthumous poetry volume appeared: The Historians: Poems. It won the Costa Poetry award for the year.

Biography

Birth and Family

24 September 1944

EB was born in Dublin, the youngest of her parents' five children.
Welch wrongly gives her birth date as 1945.
Allen Randolph, Jody. “A passion for the ordinary”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
ix
, No. 7, pp. 19-20.
19
Learning Network,. Infoplease.

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